signals: jffs2: fix the wrong usage of disallow_signal()
jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does disallow_signal(SIGHUP) around
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() and the comment says "We don't want SIGHUP
to interrupt us".
But disallow_signal() can't ensure that jffs2_garbage_collect_pass()
won't be interrupted by SIGHUP, the problem is that SIGHUP can be
already pending when disallow_signal() is called, and in this case any
interruptible sleep won't block.
Note: this is in fact because disallow_signal() is buggy and should be
fixed, see the next changes.
But there is another reason why disallow_signal() is wrong: SIG_IGN set
by disallow_signal() silently discards any SIGHUP which can be sent
before the next allow_signal(SIGHUP).
Change this code to use sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK/SIG_BLOCK, SIGHUP).
This even matches the old (and wrong) semantics allow/disallow had when
this logic was written.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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